David Vitter remakes himself as Senate insider

David Vitter is stepping up his attacks on Wall Street, slamming President Barack Obama’s oil policies and vowing to use a new committee perch to speed up unfinished levee work — issues that play well back home in Louisiana and could boost a possible bid for the governor’s mansion.

Call it the rehabilitation of Sen. Vitter.

Since an embarrassing sex scandal in 2007, the Louisiana Republican has lain low, ducking reporters at the Capitol and largely avoiding the media spotlight.

But Vitter has weathered a Category 3 public relations disaster that would have ruined most politicians. Voters shrugged at the scandal and overwhelmingly reelected him to a second term, and polls show he leads the field of potential candidates in the 2015 governor’s race. And he even has a new super PAC supporting him.

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